Swarm64 Partners with Intel to Accelerate SQL Performance Using FPGAs

Intel, working with Swarm64, a provider of a storage engine, announced today that it can significantly accelerate the performance of open source databases using field programmable gate arrays (FPGA).

Announced at a M|17 conference for users of open source MariaDB databases, Swarm64 CEO Karsten Rönner says the Swarm64 scalable data accelerator (SDA) is a storage engine for SQL databases that can be dropped in alongside existing storage engines employed in MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL databases. Instead of replacing existing databases with, for example, a new database that runs in-memory, Rönner says FPGAs make it possible to process SQL requests to run in real time against large amounts of data without having to move data into a different database platform.

Moving data to a new database platform is not an activity most IT organizations relish. If a new storage engine coupled with FPGAs forestalls the need to swap out an existing database, chances are then high that large numbers of IT organizations would prefer to simply add additional hardware versus going to the pain and trouble of implementing a new database.

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